DCPS Let's Go-Go Band

DCPS Let's Go-Go Band Program

During the 2023-24 season, the Capital City Go-Go partnered with DCPS and their new All-City Ensemble program. The program was put on in additional partnership with Washington Performing Arts, Growing Brains + Finding Rhythm, and the Innovative School of the Performing Arts. Through this program, 6-12 grade DCPS students & teachers were provided with ongoing and cumulative learning in Go-Go music, DC culture, science-based critical thinking, and mindfulness & empathy skills.

This program included a 4-session residency with Growing Brains + Finding Rhythm and participation for up to 10 student ambassadors from each school in a full day Go-Go Workshop with Dr. Jessica and Dante’ Pope of Finding Rhythm, and Shorty Corleone, culminating in a public performance at the March 22nd Capital City Go-Go game.

Participating schools include:
MacArthur High School
Alice Deal Middle School
McKinley Tech High School
Eliot Hine Middle School
Benjamin Banneker High School
HD Woodson High School
SWWFS Education Campus
Excel Education Campus

Everyday DC Photography Contest

In partnership with the Pulitzer Center of Crisis Journalism, and with support from D.C. Commission on the Arts & Humanities and the Charles Sumner School Museum & Archives, DCPS middle school students in photography courses participate in a "Everyday DC" unit where students are asked to take photos of areas in their neighborhood that represent what DC is to them. This unit is used to help contradict and deny the negative narrative that is often pushed about the District.

DCPS students participating in this unit had the opportunity to submit their photography to the "Everyday DC" photography contest. Three winners were chosen for the opportunity to meet a Go-Go player in the location of their photo, and discuss what the space means to them. This photography was also be featured on the videoboard at the March 22nd Capital City Go-Go game and the DCPS Photography Exhibition at the end of March.